Podcast Review:
[citations needed] Review by Sophie S. Williams.
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★★★★★ “A Podcast about media, power, PR, and the history of bullsh*t.” Episodes are available wherever you get your podcasts. Produced by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
Modern media is convoluted, to say the least. Citations Needed helps clear it up. The 24-hour news cycle should make spacious time for reporting diverse content with adequate historical context. But listen to the radio for half an hour and you’ll see that the opposite is true. The liberal media is an odd title, as press is less free than dictated by pressures from all sides. The major media outlets fixate on an event or even a single quote, picking it apart for hours on end in a vacuum that barely looks beyond a single day. When flipping between Fox, CNN, NBC, and even NPR, I have trouble distinguishing between them at all, with each station picking up on certain phrases and positions and
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spreading them in a flurry until the word-mandate changes again. The American media isn’t biased toward the left, like the right wing claims, nor biased towards the right, but biased towards the center. The nearly-endless sea of ongoing history makes it easy to drown in information. A bit of understanding helps you tread water. Give your content intake a level of focus. It’s easy to get lost in doom-scrolling — getting back on Twitter, clicking on an article and diving straight to the comments, sinking into a black hole courtesy of the YouTube Recommended algorithm, or skimming
